Ex-cop faces 30 years over torture of suspects

 As a decorated Chicago police lieutenant, Jon Burge prided himself on sending bad guys to prison by getting them to confess to terrible crimes — and by committing terrible crimes himself in the process. Dozens of suspects, almost all of them black men, claimed for decades that Burge and his officers tortured them into confessing to crimes ranging from armed robbery to murder. Prosecutors argue that the nature of the violent acts Burge was convicted of lying about should lengthen his sentence, as should the cost his conduct has had on the city, his fellow officers and his victims.

I think that if this officer had been torturing  his suspects for decades, someone would have known about it. That person should have reported him to higher up authorities. And if his victims had been claiming that he tortured them, someone should have believed them, and then reported him. Just because he was a police officer does not make the things he did right. No one is above the law. He should have known that. He also led a bad example for his officers. As a lieutenant, he was a leader in his group, and teaching his officers that torturing people was a bad move on his part. Also, he sounds a bit racist for mainly torturing black suspects.  

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